Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance X1070 User Guide

The Cisco AsyncOS CLI supports command completion. You can type the first few letters of some 
commands followed by the Tab key, and the CLI completes the string for unique commands. If the letters 
you entered are not unique among commands, the CLI “narrows” the set. For example:

For both the history and file completion features of the CLI, you must type Enter or Return to invoke the 
command. 

You can make configuration changes to Cisco AsyncOS while email operations proceed normally. 

Configuration changes will not take effect until you:

Issue the 

commit

 command at the command prompt.

Give the 

commit

 command the input required.

Receive confirmation of the 

commit

 procedure at the CLI.

Changes to configuration that have not been committed will be recorded but not put into effect until the 

commit

 command is run. 

Not all commands in AsyncOS require the 

commit

 command to be run. See the Cisco AsyncOS 

CLI Reference Guide for a summary of commands that require commit to be run before their 
changes take effect. 

Exiting the CLI session, system shutdown, reboot, failure, or issuing the 

clear

 command clears changes 

that have not yet been committed.

This section describes the commands used to commit or clear changes, to get help, and to quit the 
command-line interface.

The 

commit

 command is critical to saving configuration changes to the appliance. Many configuration 

changes are not effective until you enter the 

commit

 command. (A few commands do not require you to 

use the 

commit

 command for changes to take effect. The 

commit

 command applies configuration changes 

made to Cisco AsyncOS since the last 

commit

 command or the last 

clear

 command was issued. You may 

include comments up to 255 characters. Changes are not verified as committed until you receive 
confirmation along with a timestamp.

mail3.example.com> topin (type the Down arrow key)

mail3.example.com> set (type the Tab key)

setgateway, sethostname, settime, settz

mail3.example.com> seth (typing the Tab again completes the entry with sethostname)